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The Web Is Turning Into One Big Toll Booth
I’ve noticed something lately. Not gradually either. It feels like it’s happened in the space of a year or two. The internet has started putting up gates. You click a link, you want to read something, and you’re met with a banner. Not the old irritating cookie notice – those were bad enough. This one’s…
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Medium’s Algorithm Turned Your Feed Into an Echo Chamber
Medium used to be brilliant – a proper treasure trove of diverse content on every subject you could imagine. Now? The algorithm’s turned it into a one-note echo chamber where a single click defines your entire identity. While the platform’s trying to fix the spam problem, they’re mostly making it worse for everyone. Here’s what’s…
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Facebook has seriously passed its sell-by date!
Facebook used to be a decent platform. It was fun. Well, sort of. For a while. But now it feels like a cesspit you wade through for the odd useful post. The rest is AI tat (or AI Slop as most people are referring to it as), scammy ads, tired “news” and links that take…
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The Outrage Machine Never Wants The Story To End
The modern internet doesn’t want resolution. It wants seasons. Pick any headline that has dominated the UK over the last few years. Lucy Letby. Jeffrey Epstein. Keir Starmer. Lucy Connolly. Search YouTube. Or don’t, if you value your sanity. What you’ll see isn’t reporting. It’s manufacturing. “Bombshell update.” “Everything changes today.” “Starmer is FINISHED.” “They…
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The YouTube Audiobook Circle of Slop
If you feel like YouTube has quietly filled your recommendations with soulless “audiobooks” read by lifeless robot voices, you’re not imagining it. You’re watching a new content racket evolve in real time, and it runs on low effort, AI tools, and platforms that pretend to care about “authenticity” while cashing the ad cheques. This is…
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AI Slop is Not New, Just Industrialised
The behaviour came first, the label arrived later. For many years, lazy and shady people have been building “channels” by scraping other people’s clips, Reddit posts, pet videos, podcast moments and news footage, then stitching them into compilations with a new title, thumbnail and maybe a watermark. AI simply took that lazy mentality and put…
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The Ego Machines Driving Your Social Media Feed
Open Facebook for five minutes and you’ll see it. A pastel background. A sunset. A soft-focus image of a woman staring at the horizon. A quote about protecting your energy, choosing peace, healing your inner child. Thousands of likes. The Ego Trip Hiding in Your Social Media Feed Hundreds of comments. “Beautiful.” “Needed this.” “Thank…
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The Algorithm Con – How Social Media Manipulates Us
Algorithms, algorithms, algorithms. That’s all we’ve been hearing about for years now. And here we are, midway through 2023, watching the AI bandwagon race along at full speed, churning out generated content, videos, articles, the lot. Bullshit everywhere, made by AI. And the search results? Completely screwed. Google’s algorithms haven’t caught up. Did they ever?…